00:00We've heard this week from the PFA, you've been checking in on a couple of your players.
00:06You spoke last week about the fact that you hadn't even spoken to Raheem Sterling when he hadn't got his move on deadline day.
00:15How comfortable are you with the situation that those players find themselves in?
00:21It wasn't that long ago you were a player. How might you feel in their situation?
00:28I've been in Raheem's situation and Axel's situation as a player and for sure I know that is not the best feeling for a player
00:40because if you are a player that means that you want to train and play a game.
00:43But then for different reasons the situation is the situation that is in this moment.
00:48I know that the club is giving them the opportunity to work in the right way and this is the only thing I can say.
00:57It feels like from the outside from what we've heard, training separately, eating separately, not being a part, it seems quite extreme.
01:07Are you not worried about the long-term effect? What effect did that have on you when you were told to be by yourself and absolutely not be a part of what they signed up to be a part of?
01:21No, but I think I know that it's something that you like and you want to talk about.
01:30But it's not just Chelsea, it's any club in the world, I can promise you. Italy, Spain, England, France, USA, Brazil, any club in the world.
01:38When for any reason the player and the club doesn't find any solution, you give the player all the tools to do training sessions and to do everything.
01:50But if you are not involved in the squad, you are not involved in the squad.
01:54Again, I know that it's something that you like to talk about but it's not about Chelsea, it's about any club in the world.
02:00I know, but it's about the human at the centre of this, isn't it? Like their health, their mental health.
02:05Yeah. My father is 75 years old and for 50 years he has been fisherman working for 2 o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock in the morning.
02:16This is hard in life, not a player the way they work.
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